piik
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Jamaican Creole[edit]
Verb[edit]
piik
- (Maroon Spirit Language) Speak.
References[edit]
- Bilby, Kenneth (1983). "How the "Older Heads" Talk: A Jamaican Maroon Spirit Possession Language and Its Relationship to the Creoles of Surname and Sierra Leone". New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 57 (1/2): 37–88.
Marshallese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English pig, from Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”), apparently from Old English *picga.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲiːk], (enunciated) [pʲiik]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲijik/
- Bender phonemes: {piyik}
Noun[edit]
piik